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ID S1189

Bill

Status

Passed

4/6/2017

Primary Sponsor

Finance Committee

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Origin

Senate

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $104,056,200 to the Department of Health and Welfare for Mental Health Services ($50,567,100), Psychiatric Hospitalization ($38,663,400), and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention ($14,825,700) for fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018).

  • Authorizes 709.58 full-time equivalent positions across five programs: Adult Mental Health (210.56), Children's Mental Health (90.67), State Hospital North (107.10), State Hospital South (285.25), and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention (16.00).

  • Directs the Children's Mental Health Program to pay the Department of Juvenile Corrections $327,000 by July 16, 2017, for contract clinician services at juvenile detention facilities.

  • Requires the Department of Health and Welfare to fund education for school-age children placed in its custody when they attend accredited schools within residential treatment facilities, if determined to be in the child's best interest.

  • Appropriates additional $2,255,400 for fiscal year 2017 (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017) and reduces Adult Mental Health appropriation by $500,000; increases Children's Mental Health positions by 11 full-time equivalents for fiscal year 2017.

Legislative Description

Appropriates $104,056,200 to the divisions of Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospitalization, and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention for fiscal year 2018; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions for the three divisions to 709.58 for fiscal year 2018; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs expenditures for trustee and benefit payments; provides for program integrity; limits transfers of legislative appropriations; clarifies responsibility for education of certain children in state care; directs an interagency payment; requires an annual report on community support for the Behavioral Health Community Crisis Centers; appropriates an additional $2,255,400 to the Children's Mental Health program, Community Hospitalization program and the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention program for fiscal year 2017; reduces the appropriation by $500,000 for the Adult Mental Health program for fiscal year 2017; and provides an additional 11 full-time equivalent positions for the Children's Mental Health program for fiscal year 2017.

APPROPRIATIONS

Last Action

Session Law Chapter 292 Effective: 04/06/2017 SECTION 10-12; 07/01/2017 all other SECTIONS

4/6/2017

Committee Referrals

Judiciary and Rules3/16/2017

Full Bill Text

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